I JUST found this forum!
(Got to get away from the "Off Topic" forum more often!!!!)
I'll be posting here more often. (Be afraid. Be very afraid.)
Just for the books. I work for probably THEE smallest hospital in Massachusettes! We've just been designated a "Critical Care Access Facility". No one knows what the heck that means except that we get full %% in Medicare reimbursements. But because of this, we can only have 15 acute care patients in the hospital at one time. . . including the med/surg floor, the maternity floor and the ICU/CCU (where I work).
Total beds in our hospital??? Let me count in my head (which really hurts by the way!). . . . 32 beds including the E.R.
Yep! We're a small, rural, community hospital. And I'm still surprised to find that we all have a job there because. . . because. . . because. . . there are days when we have less than FIVE patients in the whole facility! One time, not too long ago, we only had one!
I love my job! Can't ship the really sick ones out fast enough!
Cheers to you all! :)
Ted